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The Street Ep 1/6

Monday 13 July

9.00-10.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE

Bob Hoskins stars as Paddy Gargan as a new series of The Street begins

Bob Hoskins stars as reformed alcoholic Paddy Gargan, landlord of The Greyhound, as a new series of The Street, Jimmy McGovern's powerful, award-winning drama, begins.

The pub, which Paddy runs with his hard-working wife, Lizzie, is the hub of the community. But Paddy's biggest-spending customer is local gangster Thomas Miller, who also finances The Greyhound's football team.

After football one day, Paddy catches Miller's son, Callum, smoking in the toilets and bars him from the pub. He has to be seen to mean business – the smoking fine is £5,000. Miller is furious and challenges Paddy to drop Callum's ban, but Paddy is resolute.

Miller threatens Paddy and Paddy's son, Liam, threatens to retaliate. Lizzie begs Paddy to go to the police but Paddy won't listen.

Lizzie is beside herself with worry. Loyal friend Eddie offers assistance but Paddy needs serious muscle, so who will back up him in his hour of need?

Paddy Gargan is played by Bob Hoskins; Lizzie by Frances Barber; Thomas Miller by Liam Cunningham; Callum by Robert Elms; Liam by David Atkins; and Eddie by Timothy Spall.

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As Seen On TV Ep 1/8

Friday 17 July

8.30-9.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE

Steve Jones (centre) is joined by team captains Fern Britton and Jason Manford in As Seen On TV

Fans of all things telly-related are spoilt for choice with the launch of this new series. Hosted by Steve Jones, alongside regular captains Fern Britton and Jason Manford, the teams battle it out in five TV trivia rounds, with the help of this week's celebrity guests, television aficionados Tina Hobley, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Pauline Quirke and Lauren Laverne.

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New Tricks – The War Against Drugs Ep 1/8

Thursday 16 July

9.00-10.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE

The Unsolved Crime And Open Case Squad (UCOS) face a difficult professional and personal dilemma when Brian Lane is forced into rehab to treat his alcoholism and stumbles on a case involving the death of a heroin addict, as New Tricks returns for its sixth series.

Following the dramatic climax to series five, Brian is drinking in the last chance saloon as far as his wife, Esther, is concerned. She books him into the Trinity Clinic, an addiction centre run by monks and, blaming UCOS for his decline, she appeals to Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman for the team to leave him alone to recover.

Distrustful of the clinic's methods and dangerously under-occupied, Brian is looking for any kind of distraction. He finds it when a chance remark by Father Bernard about an incident at the clinic nine years ago sets his detective's antennae twitching.

Drug addict Robert Smith died in a suspected fall 12 days after arriving at Trinity in 2000. His neck was broken and, despite the clinic's strict ban on substance substitutes, there was methadone in his body. The team has a case, but Pullman has made a promise to Esther and feels honour-bound to leave Brian out of the investigation.

Gerry's solution is to go undercover, posing as a sex addict. Believing himself to be an expert in this field, Gerry's apparently inspired plan begins to unravel when the one-to-one sessions with sex therapist Anna Greening get a little too up-close-and-personal for comfort.

Despite the air of spiritual calm at the clinic, Robert's death begins to seem anything but accidental. As Brian reluctantly edges closer to confronting his demons, will the clinic reveal its own secrets?

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is played by Amanda Redman, Jack Halford by James Bolam, Gerry Standing by Dennis Waterman, Brian Lane by Alun Armstrong, Esther by Susan Jameson, Father Bernard by Richard Wilson and Anna Greening by Faye Ripley.

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Freefall

Tuesday 14 July

9.00-10.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO

• Feature (Interview with Dominic Cooper)

Aidan Gillen, Rosamund Pike, Joseph Mawle, Anna Maxwell-Martin and Dominic Cooper star in Dominic Savage's Freefall

Freefall tackles head on the extraordinary financial crisis we are currently living through. Written and directed by multiple-Bafta Award-winning Dominic Savage, the film dives into the events that have caused turmoil in so many people's lives.

Tautly and delicately interwoven, the film follows the lives of three men with everything on the line. Gus (Aidan Gillen) is the high-flying city exec who packages and sells bundles of mortgages for extortionate profit. Dave (Dominic Cooper) is the mortgage broker who can make anything happen, and when Dave offers Jim (Joseph Mawle), his old school friend, a way out of the council flat he and his family have been stuck in for years, it's an offer that is too good to refuse.

When the market collapses, each character is confronted by a shocking, revelatory truth that shines a burning light on the new realities they face.

Rosamund Pike, Sarah Harding, Alfie Allen, Anna Maxwell-Martin and Riz Ahmed also star in this thought-provoking piece.

Freefall is also simulcast on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD channel – the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s High Definition channel available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

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Coast – Whitstable To The Isle Of Wight Ep 1/8

Tuesday 14 July

8.00-9.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO

Bafta Award-winning series Coast returns for a new journey around the British Isles and, for the first time, visits the shores of our European neighbours.

Beginning at the famous Oyster Festival in Whitstable, Neil Oliver ventures offshore to the remarkable Red Sands Sea Forts. Built as air defences in the Second World War, they inspired the design of the first North Sea oil rigs. Neil also becomes a silent-movie director as he films a scene from The Mayor Of Casterbridge, using an antique camera to reveal how pioneers in Brighton taught the world to make movies long before Hollywood shot a frame.

In Dover, Alice Roberts relives the glamour days of the hovercraft crossing to France. Alice learns how to fly a hovercraft and discovers the science behind this British invention in an experiment with kitchen scales and a hair dryer. Miranda Krestovnikoff joins a battle between men and fish in Hastings and shares some of the tricks of the trade, including eco-friendly nets, which are helping Britain's largest beach-launched fishing fleet to survive.

Mark Horton visits Rottingdean, to peek over Rudyard Kipling's garden wall and follow in the footsteps of Victorian celebrity hunters before unearthing the bizarre history of a unique Victorian electric railway which ran underwater – Magnus Volks's bizarre and beautiful Daddy Long-legs.

Finally, Nick Crane explores the geology of the Isle of Wight, England's biggest island. It is a unique time capsule containing clues to an epic journey that the British Isles is making around Earth. Nick discovers dinosaur footprints and evidence of a "continental car crash" between Africa and Britain, millions of years ago, when these land masses were on the move.

Coast is co-produced by The Open University and a free booklet is available to accompany the series. Viewers can visit open2.net or call 0845 300 8847 to receive one.

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In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defence of "state terror" – claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence.

This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety – the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France.

Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp.

The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic. It was a year which gave birth to key features of modern age: the thought crime; the belief that calculated acts of violence can perfect humanity; the notion that the interests of "mankind" can be placed above those of "man"; the use of policemen to enforce morals; and the use of denunciation as a political tool.

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